In Palpa, there persons of a family were killed in a landslide. They were buried to death following a landslide in Birkot VDC-3 of Palpa district on Tuesday night. [break]
Khagi Sara Barhaghare, 46, and her daughters Nirmaya, 13, and Manisha, 10, were killed after their house was crushed under the debris brought down by the landslide. However, Khagi Sara´s husband Bir Bahadur, who was also buried under the debris, was rescued alive by the locals. Dead bodies of Bir Bahadur´s wife and children have been handed over to him after postmortem on Wednesday.
In Dang, a person has died after being swept away by Babai River. The deceased has been identified as Dambar Bahadur Thapa, 58, a resident of Narayanpur Lamdaruwa.
"We escaped from jaws of death"
According to Dhangadhi-based Republica correspondent Dil Bahadur Chhatyal, the local people of Daulatpur Ghat, a settlement in Tikapur municipality, who were trapped in their own houses after being surrounded by water from the swollen Karnali River for 24 hours, said they escaped from the jaws of death.
“There was water everywhere around us. We feared being swept away by the river the whole night,” said Junu Devi Chaudhari, one of the residents of Daulatpur Ghat. “We could not sleep even for a moment.”
Like Chaudhari, 107 residents of Daulatpur Ghat were airlifted by a helicopter to Tiakapur on Wednesday. They are now taking shelter in make-shift tents erected in the Tikapur airport area. After they faced imminent threat of food, they had sought the administration´s help to flee the village.
Kathmandu-Syafru road blocked
Landsides have blocked the Pasang Lhwamu highway, which connects Dhunche, the district headquarters of Rasuwa, with Kathmandu.
Several landslides have damaged the highway in Ramche and Mulkharka, leaving all vehicles heading toward Dhunce and Syafru stranded. With the blocking of the highway, people living in Goljung, Haku, Gatlang, Chilime, Bridim and Syafru VDCs of Rasuwa are cut off from the capital. No effort has been initiated to clear the highway due to a dispute between the Road Division Office of Nuwakot and Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Flood-victims refuse relief materials
Enraged by the government´s apathy to their plight, flood victims of Darchula district have refused to accept relief materials.
On the third day of the devastating flood that killed many people and swept away dozens of houses and government offices, a team of government officials, led by Under Secretary Pradip Koirala, reached Darchula to provide relief materials to the victims. The government team had reached Darchula with 500 blankets and medicines.
However, the victims, saying that the government´s relief was too late and too little, accepted neither the medicines nor the blankets. “We have been rendered homeless. Our major concern is house,” said Prem Chunara, one of the flood victims.
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